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one more day before all of us -- most of us flee the coop for the holidays. >> today is my day to hopefully finish my shopping. i've got like three more gifts to get for -- i'm not going to say for who. three more. >> bill: man i'm done. >> i'm not done at all. i've got an hour and a half worth of work tonight. >> bill: oh, really? gotta get out there. >> i'll be there. >> bill: do you know where the apple store is by the way? >> i do. >> bill: it is not that far away. >> i've got one in bethesda. in walking distance from my apartment. >> bill: is it really? >> oh, yeah. >> bill: here's something you might consider. if you -- you know, looking for like a good read, i told you a good read that i took with me when i went to istanbul a couple of weeks ago. i took a read -- not a good read. but everybody was talking about it so i just wanted to find out what the hell it was all about. i read "fifty shades of gray." it is nothing but porn. it is not even good porn. certainly not good fiction but if i had known, i would not have taken the book. i would have taken the audiotape of george takei rea
one more day before all of us -- most of us flee the coop for the holidays. >> today is my day to hopefully finish my shopping. i've got like three more gifts to get for -- i'm not going to say for who. three more. >> bill: man i'm done. >> i'm not done at all. i've got an hour and a half worth of work tonight. >> bill: oh, really? gotta get out there. >> i'll be there. >> bill: do you know where the apple store is by the way? >> i do. >> bill: it...
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press. that's our toll free number or you can follow us on twitter. i would love to hear from you at bpshow. on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow. and we've got this big chat room national chat room going on every morning if you go to current tv and click on the chat room you're in with your fellow "full court pressers" across the land. you guys can debate the issues online while we're talking about them on air. the wonderful world of talk radio and talk radio news, we are all part of a big family. part of a big network. and one of our colleagues joins us in studio this morning. she's actually the bureau chief for talk radio news. i see her at the white house as well. ellen ratner. >> thank you. good to be here. >> bill: ellen is also a head of a project of her own. she does wonderful work around the world. goats for the old goat. you're the old goat? >> i started it for my 60th birthday. that was a year and a half ago. >> bill: i wasn't going to ask you. >> born in 1951. >> bill: proud of it. >> i'm proud of it. >> bill: we'll find out what goats
give us a call at 1-866-55-press. that's our toll free number or you can follow us on twitter. i would love to hear from you at bpshow. on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow. and we've got this big chat room national chat room going on every morning if you go to current tv and click on the chat room you're in with your fellow "full court pressers" across the land. you guys can debate the issues online while we're talking about them on air. the wonderful world of talk radio and talk...
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and listen to us on the way as you are getting ready and watch us here. you can do that on current tv of course. you can listen to us on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm this hour only. maybe that will change one of these days when they come to their senses. it's good to have you with us today. there is a lot of news to talk about. vice president biden having his first meeting of the tax force on -- task force on guns meeting with law enforcement officials and meeting with members of the president's cabinet. and last night, a bombshell on capitol hill when john boehner couldn't get enough republican votes to even have a vote on his so-called plan b, a col lossal embarrassment for john boehner. we have all of that to talk about. so that's why we have assembled our team this morning and a good group of guests, too we will tell you about. peter ogburn off with his family celebrating their holiday. dan henning. we have henning for you. >> dan: we do. i am looking at this coun countdown clock here >> bill: the official clock is what?
and listen to us on the way as you are getting ready and watch us here. you can do that on current tv of course. you can listen to us on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm this hour only. maybe that will change one of these days when they come to their senses. it's good to have you with us today. there is a lot of news to talk about. vice president biden having his first meeting of the tax force on -- task force on guns meeting with law enforcement officials and meeting...
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and move us to act. you know this weekend, we have been consumed with grief. we have been consumed with sorrow. we have been consumed with anger, too anger at ourselves, and i've got to tell you i have been particularly consumed, maybe some of you, too, with a little guilt because i feel as the president indicated last night, i feel that i haven't done enough, that i haven't said enough, that i haven't pushed enough. i mean it's so -- there is sort of a rule in talk radio, you know, that there are certain issues you just don't talk about because everybody knows where up stand on those issues and it just doesn't do any good to talk about them on talk radio because you hear all of the samacts, all of the time. abortion is one of them and so is gun control. people avoid talking about gun chrome and i find that with so many of these tragedies, i have avoided t everybody knows, i think, where i stand on it but i have avoided talking about it because what good is it going to do because it's wrong. i was wrong
and move us to act. you know this weekend, we have been consumed with grief. we have been consumed with sorrow. we have been consumed with anger, too anger at ourselves, and i've got to tell you i have been particularly consumed, maybe some of you, too, with a little guilt because i feel as the president indicated last night, i feel that i haven't done enough, that i haven't said enough, that i haven't pushed enough. i mean it's so -- there is sort of a rule in talk radio, you know, that there...
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good to have you with us. we are ready to take your calls at 866-55-press. >> that's our toll-free number. join us on facebook at facebook.com. i'm sorry facebook.com/bill press show and on twitter at bp show. good to see you this morning. peter ogburn has the day off. but we have another man by the same name. a good friend of the program, congressman from vermont, peter welch? >> likewise. good to be here, bill >> bill: not a lot going on but a lot to talk. >> ain'ted nothing going on. we are just watching, you know, like watching paint dry but there is a lot going on between the speaker and the president. >> we will see whether all of it is good or not. our team peter ogburn has the week off with his family. dan henning is in charge this morning. >> dan: if i could do my producerly duties and ask the congressman to step a little closer to the mic phone. beautiful >> bill: cyplian boulding with the camera work this morning. wanted today point out on facebook and twitter by the way, weact radio, our local prog
good to have you with us. we are ready to take your calls at 866-55-press. >> that's our toll-free number. join us on facebook at facebook.com. i'm sorry facebook.com/bill press show and on twitter at bp show. good to see you this morning. peter ogburn has the day off. but we have another man by the same name. a good friend of the program, congressman from vermont, peter welch? >> likewise. good to be here, bill >> bill: not a lot going on but a lot to talk. >> ain'ted...
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press talk to us on twitter at bpshow and follow us on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow to help us through the events of the day. someone who writes about them every day several times a day for "daily beast," michael tomasky, columnist for the "daily beast" joining us in studio. you write for so many publications. you also do some stuff for new york review, books? >> yeah. those are my main two things. >> bill: then you have democracy. >> democracy. journal of ideas. i'm the editor of it. i write for it once a year or something like that. very nice of you to mention democracy, i would like to see people check out democracyjournal. >> bill: there it is. michael tomasky. nice of you to take time for us. our regular team here on deck as always. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> happy tuesday. >> bill: good morning, good morning. phil backert's got the phones cover and cyprian bowlding, of course, has the cameras covered. cyprian -- >> still very excited this morning. >> bill: very excited this morning about the redskins. knocking off the giants last night. just
give us a call at 1-866-55-press talk to us on twitter at bpshow and follow us on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow to help us through the events of the day. someone who writes about them every day several times a day for "daily beast," michael tomasky, columnist for the "daily beast" joining us in studio. you write for so many publications. you also do some stuff for new york review, books? >> yeah. those are my main two things. >> bill: then you have...